Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress, Volume 5T. Payne and T. Cadell, 1786 |
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Page 85 - Her equipage, therefore, was without glare, though not without elegance ; her table was plain, though hofpitably plentiful ; her fervants were for ufe, though too numerous to be for labour. The fyftem of her ceconomy, like that of her liberality, was formed by rules of reafon, and her own ideas of right, and not by compliance with example, nor by emulation with the gentry in her neighbourhood.
Page 313 - Sir, what should we all do with birth if it was not for wealth? it would neither take us to Ranelagh nor the Opera; nor buy us caps nor wigs, nor supply us with dinners nor bouquets.
Page 310 - ... not a creature thinks of our principles till they find them out by our conduct; and nobody can possibly do that till we are married, for they give us no power beforehand. The men know nothing of us in the world while we are single, but how we can dance a minuet, or play a lesson upon the harpsichord.
Page 309 - You think, then, the quarrel more amufing than the reconciliation ?" " O, a thoufand times ! for while you are quarrelling, you may fay any thing, and demand any thing, but when you are reconciled, you ought to behave pretty, and feem contented.
Page 311 - Lord, how you are always upon your guard! If I were half as cautious, I should die of the vapours in a month; the only thing that keeps me at all alive, is now and then making people angry; for the folks at our house let me go out so seldom, and then send me with such stupid...
Page 257 - MADNESS. Whereas a crazy young lady, tall, fair complexioned, with blue eyes and light hair, ran into the Three Blue Balls, in - street, on Thursday night, the 2d instant, and has been kept there since out of charity. She was dressed in a riding habit. Whoever she belongs to is desired to send after her immediately.
Page 313 - Why, you know, Sir, as to caps and wigs, they are very serious things, for we should look mighty droll figures to go about bareheaded; and as to dinners, how would the Delviles have lasted all these thousand centuries if they had disdained eating them?
Page 69 - Lord, Sir/' cried Mrs. Belfield, somewhat surprised at this unexpected prohibition, "I don't care for my part if I never mention the old gentleman's name again! I never heard any good of him in my life, for they say he's as proud as Lucifer, and nobody knows what it's of, for they say-
Page 182 - She would then have left the room. "I beg, madam," cried the stranger, "you will have patience; it is necessary, before I can open my business, that I should hear your name from yourself.
Page 67 - Then, Sir, you are no judge how well he might make his own terms. And as to this young lady, she found him out, Sir, when not one of his own natural friends could tell where in the world he was gone! She was the first, Sir, to come and tell me news of him, though I was his own mother! Love, Sir, is prodigious for quickness! it can see, I sometimes think, through bricks and mortar. Yet all this would not do, he was so obstinate not to take the hint!